Friday, October 1, 2010

There are no stages in Realization, or degrees in liberation. There are no levels of Reality (existence, Being-ness), there are only levels of experience for the individual. If anything can be gained that was not present before, it can also be lost. Absolute (Being-ness) is eternal, here and now. Sri Ramana

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"This short book has more direct pointing packed into less than a hundred pages than you'll find in most books that go on and on for a thousand or more. What needs saying is said -- simply and directly." lotusandrose.com

This is a beautiful book. It is very simple, direct and to the point. It will be a benefit to many people. I am very pleased that the message which Nisargadatta Maharaj was a vehicle for is being passed on. This lineage is influencing many and is continuing to spread the message throughout the world. It is obvious that the author has investigated along the lines he points to in this book. He has dispersed the clouds of conceptual beliefs with basic clear seeing. This book itself is the proof that he knows whereof he speaks. The book takes the seeker locked in the confusion of the mind to the immediacy of the Natural State. Don’t under-rate the obviousness and simplicity contained in this book and the search is over! “Sailor” Bob Adamson.

I've read "Oneness" and was so delighted to complete a journey that was unnecessary and there all along. Wow! I've read loads of books on Non-Duality over the past year or so and no one has said it more clearly than you... B.H.

Wow, what a powerful book! I'm truly speechless and absolutely certain there is nothing more that can be said. So let me contradict myself by saying the search is over and now there is the recognition of peace, love and freedom that is ever-clear and available. It's now seen there no me to get anything and yet all is understood. This has always been the case and yet seems to have gone unnoticed. With much gratitude from nowhere! B.L.

This book really RESONATES ... and I have not seen anything quite like it ... great. It takes the reader ....at least, this (voracious) reader ... deep into a natural seeing.... like being with Bob Adamson or John Wheeler, where in the presence of one abiding AS this, the mind seems to take a back seat. This book is dangerous to that what believes it is real. C.H.

That piece is the best, it got through ...... T.M.

Your expression of this understanding is the most direct and clearest of any I've encountered. R.F.

Reading your book this morning was ''the missing link.'' Having tried ''who am i'' and not really understanding what the heck I was doing, only barely getting what it was pointing at, it finally ''hits home'' now. Another pointer and a powerfull one, that book of yours. It is very tricky using words to describe the indescribable and I guess the most they can do is help to create a stopping or seeing through of the thoughts that have fooled you into thinking that they are you. Your book does this better than most for ''me''. P.C.

I want to convey to you my appreciation of the work as it has been truly the first piece of western work which explains "you are not". Thank you. M.D.

I just wanted to thank you for your book.. It is wonderful to have someone explain advita in plan English. Your book has finally made it so simple that even I got it. D.H.

Truly fantastic. Magnificent. You bring the timeless spaceless reality to life through your words. Neo-Advaitins may moan a bit about the inability of words to express that which is both inconceivable as well as inexpressible, but when the words are Right On!, then the Truth may just appear to appear! I think your book is HUGE, in terms of the impact it can, or will, have. The fact that it is, Thank God, CONCISE and truly an expression of the enlightened point of view, means that it can be read over and over and over again, which I DEFINITELY intend to do. Even though there is no path, no teaching, etc., Chapter 15 "The End of Suffering" is about as close as one can get to a "manual" or whatever, of true transformation. I don't do "spiritual practices" of any kind, but I DO plan to use your outline of the "process" of going out from the One, experiencing the illusion of duality=SUFFERING, and resolving all conflict, etc. by "returning" to the One we never really left, and recognizing THAT's who we always already ARE!! When I first encountered "I Am That" in 1982, what attracted me to Nisargadatta was not the carrot of Enlightenment or the idea of Self-Realization, but the simple idea of bringing an end to SUFFERING (as a separate being or self). With "Oneness" the circle is complete. P.F.

I read your book some time ago and I have been letting it sink in. Although the book itself is very brief, the depth is astonishing. You did indeed go beyond what other "nondual" books present. Nothing I have read or studied has come close to your clear exploration of "Who Am I". More importantly, fewer still have pointed at the Absolute state,which M. Nisargadatta states is prior to consciousness. P.D.

I love John’s book. His wonderfully lucid and direct prose hit me like a ton of bricks. He expresses the basics of Advaita in the clearest, most easy to understand way, and also conveys the most advanced concepts right alongside the simplest, and it makes sense! A really great little book, highly recommended. A.T.

John Greven has done a good job in making the message simple. You are what you seek. There is nothing to attain. This book gives the basic understanding of oneness (non duality). It explains clearly the oneness and it has succeeded in unraveling the lies that we are never the body,nor the thoughts nor are we in the body.What you are has apparently becomes what you think you are. I love this book and I have made this book my travelling companion. I shall never leave home without it. This book is a beautiful inquiry into 'Who am I?' with direct pointers at Transcendental Truth. Questions are asked from many angles and we look at a simple pointing to the experience of reality, without the filter of the mind, to that which is common to all of us, that which the mind has overlooked. You drop the suffering of the separate ego by seeing your true nature as one with all beingness. You investigate the claims, beliefs and assumptions that the mind has told you. Upon examination of your beliefs, you see them effortlessly fall away, as those concepts are seen to be false. I was left in a deep peace, "Once the conceptual 'I' is dropped by the mind as a valid center, then the door swings open to what is being pointed to, the emptiness that is full." You see "It is all just appearance within the source and the source is what you are." This book provides a simple, in-depth analysis of self inquiry, with profound insights, stated with a wry wit and an unwavering pointing at Presence/Awareness as the Oneness that we are. Your book was the final straw. The clarity was exactly what was needed to see the me, the life story, the saga, as just another thought, a consequence of the mind's natural activitiy. E.G,

One of my favorite non-duality books, it is a slim volume, but packed with insight on every page. John has a way of undermining the most stubborn beliefs with a simple turn of phrase. A very intelligent, helpful book. A.N.

This book will only resonate with a select group of people. Of those only a few will really get the full message. This book's message is simple yet incredibly profound. Just as Einstein sought to simplyfy physics and came to the realization that all is relative and E=MC(2), this book reveals the underlying simplicity of true sprititual reality - beingness = oneness. Thank you for writing such a beautiful book! It is now time for me to throw away all my books... CS